 The story of keyboard development that we generally think of is that the modern piano, the black piano that you played on as a kid, with plaster busts of dead composers looking down at you, is sort of the terminus adquam of piano building. And that's not the case at all. For most of the piano's history, there was actually plurality of instruments. A bit like we might have computers today, there are different operating systems. There's also software, works for the different hardware. So too does the music of the past, the software, work better in my opinion on some of the hardware that it was written for. So sometimes you might find a mismatch, for example, if you're playing Bach, a certain kind of software that's designed for a different kind of hardware. On a piano, for example, you might experience some discomfort. I remember when I first played Bach as a student, and it felt like I was wearing a very heavy coat in summer, it just wasn't right. When I ended up playing Bach on a harpsichord, which is the hardware for which that software was intended, it felt right, it felt like suddenly everything sort of fell into place. It really opens up and broadens the musical imagination, both for the performer and indeed for the audience, to actually hear this music on instruments that either are propped or in fact are replicas of the sorts of instruments that would have been played, say in the mid-18th and early 19th centuries. I was extremely excited to see a collection here that's on par with collections in North America and Europe. That's very much due to my predecessor, Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Lancaster's efforts. It's part of the reason that attracted me to the university in itself. It's that wonderful octave. Whilst it is absolutely thrilling to look at all the pianos, it's also quite daunting because I realise I'll have to now look at all of the keyboard instruments and determine their state and also how we might go about restoring them or bringing them back into use as a teaching tool. There are many pianos hidden in this part of the building. It's been quite extraordinary last week just discovering all of the pianos that Eastern National University have.